Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
JOHN DRYDENAffability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
More John Dryden Quotes
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I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Pity melts the mind to love.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Merit challenges envy.
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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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